2019
We didn’t set out to build a clothing brand.
Ladies Love Vandals started on the street. Back in 2019, before there was a store, there was just a graffiti-rooted page and a couple of people. Adela & Niki, putting up work because we wanted to, not because anyone asked.
We turned it into clothes for the same reason we did anything else back then: because it felt right, and the alternative was following a script neither of us signed up for.
How do you want to live your life?
Here's the actual question underneath everything we make.
Most people never really ask themselves that. They inherit an answer, school, job, house, repeat and call it a plan. We've spent most of our adult lives doing the opposite: travelling, building things, meeting people, making a few genuinely bad decisions, and generally constructing a life we actually want instead of the one we were handed.
That's not a brand persona. It's just what we do. LLV grew out of it.
Style
The graffiti became our handwriting.
Niki hand-draws every letter. No stock fonts, no filler graphics slapped on because a T-shirt needs something. The message comes first, the lettering is just how we write it. Fat-cap forms, rough edges, the character that only comes from a hand doing the drawing.
The message is the graphic. That's the whole design system.
Stay curious
What we actually stand for.
Not rebellion for its own sake. We're not angry, and we're not trying to convince you of anything. It's simpler than that:
Think for yourself. Stay curious. Take the risk. Have more fun than is strictly sensible. Collect stories, not regrets. And whatever else happens, don't become fucking boring.
If you've ever looked at "normal" adult life and thought, is this really it? you already get it.
Thats fucking me!
Who this is for.
People who don't blindly follow the default path. Who'd rather have a good story than a perfectly safe one. Who like graffiti, travel, dark humour, and not taking themselves too seriously.
We're not trying to reach everyone. We're trying to make the right person see one of our designs and think: that's fucking me.
Comfort Colors 1717
About the shirts, briefly.
We print on the Comfort Colors 1717. A heavyweight, garment-dyed, 100% ring-spun cotton, relaxed fit, built to actually live in and get better with wear. Everything's made to order through Printful's fulfilment network, so we're not sitting on mountains of stock nobody asked for. You're buying our ideas and Niki’s artwork. Printful's just how it gets to you.
Still here?
Good. That probably means you're one of us.
Ladies Love Vandals. Founded 2019, by two people trying to figure out how to live life on their own terms. Still figuring it out. Having more fun that way.